I'm posting this in the beginners section because I suddenly feel like a beginner again.

Got into wetshaving about 2 years ago and within 6 months was venturing into straights. Skip forward a few more months and I was shaving exclusively with the straight and getting very good shaves.

Life then happened and I was running out of time in the mornings so I began to pickup the DE again. Not much longer and the straights (I have 3 in the rotation) began to feel very rough and pull tons.

I've tried picking the straights up again a few times with the same pulling feeling so I would set them aside and go back to the DE's.

This past weekend I decided enough was enough. Pulled out the straights, touched them up till they seemed ready to go and went for it. Wasn't the smoothest shave and honestly I had forgotten the angles I used on certain parts of the shave but I made it through it.

All of this was to say that while I feel like a beginner again, it's good to be back.